Review

Twizy Urban: Heavy, man! It’s the electric school run acid test

People road testing the new electric Renault Twizy around the streets of London

I get it now: a weird car comes along, needing a review, and someone says,
“Dom Joly will like that one — get him to do it. He’ll drive anything.” They
excelled themselves this time. When the Renault Twizy arrived at my Cotswold
home, I thought it might be an April fool . . . in November.

The vehicle had clearly been designed by whichever member of the Grateful Dead
had taken the most acid in one sitting. The crazy colour scheme looked like
something that George Harrison, still floating on the ceiling after the
Sgt Peppers sessions, took one look at and said, “No, man, that’s too much.”

The kids loved it immediately and it was so easy to handle that I was able to
give my 12-year-old daughter her first driving lesson (not on the road,
obviously — that would be illegal — but on my private racetrack; the one I
had built for just